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...Olivier family made the trip from Groton, Conn., to hear the con- cert. Paul, 11, says he especially likes the instrumental parts of the performance, which include organ and handbells...
...order to make the opera work, we had to silence the film," says Glass. Indeed, what the composer's creation most resembles is an old-fashioned silent movie shown with live symphonic music. Silent films were never really silent; an organ or piano was always playing along, so the audience experienced an alchemy of music and image. With his new scores for such classics as The Big Parade and The Wind, composer Carl Davis has demonstrated that silents can be operas without words. Glass has simply made the next logical advance...
...your right hand here, you put your left hand there. You put your sex organ here--and you shake it all about. You do the hokey pokey and you turn yourself around--that's what it's all about...
...twins who share a single skull; the Frenchwoman who grew horny protrusions all over her body, including her forehead (top left); a heart made translucent by chemicals; the constipation-racked colon of the Balloon Man, which swelled to 8 ft. long and 27 in. around before -- as the organ's label records -- his case "terminated fatally." The bladder stones of Chief Justice John Marshall (1755-1835) are here, along with a death cast of the original Siamese twins, Chang and Eng, connected at the chest. (Their fused liver sits in formaldehyde in a display tray below.) Floating inside a small...
Carpenter says he plans to start a pilot study involving humans within the next few months. If the study proves successful, it will mean that patients in need of a new organ will not have to wait for the "perfect match." Instead, they can be pre-treated so that they can accept a larger degree of incompatibility...